The Erie Times-News is compiling a list of top performances by Erie County's varsity athletes for the week of Jan. 13-18.

He worked with the Northwestern Wildcats for the last two years ... Duke's former running backs coach Willie Simmons left the program to become the head coach at Florida International University.

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Freshman star Ace Bailey scored 24 of his 37 points in the first half and Rutgers picked up a rare road ...

The Illinois basketball team built a 25-point lead and led for all but 29 seconds of the game on the way to an 83-74 victory Sunday over in-state rival Northwestern in a Big Ten Conference game at ...

The Wildcats mustered a measly .76 points per possession. But as Martinelli took it right to Oumar Ballo’s chest for a score out of halftime, Northwestern had a completely different energy.

Northwestern coach Chris Collins has created his rosters like a fine craftsman. The Wildcats have had the right dash of skill mixed with role players who do the dirty work. Northwestern will get ...

Northwestern hosts the Indiana Hoosiers after Brooks Barnhizer scored 21 points in Northwestern's 80-76 overtime loss to the Michigan Wolverines.

Northwestern hasn't won at Illinois since January 2013 -- two months before Chris Collins became the Wildcats' head coach. Collins has led Northwestern to the first three NCAA Tournament ...

Northwestern’s struggled putting complete games together lately. The Wildcats can muck the game up, but Indiana is probably better in the ways it needs to be to play through that.

Indiana couldn’t stop Ty Berry, who led Northwestern with 23 points on 7-for-10 3-point shooting. That rubbed off on the rest of the Wildcats, who made 6-of-17 3-pointers. Northwestern’s ...